In what is believed to be his first interview in nearly 20 years, Cleveland resident and Calvin and Hobbes creator, Bill Watterson, answered a handful of questions from a local reporter who actually knew what he was doing (unlike... um, some other interviewers).
Watterson says he misses "the groupies, drugs, and trashed hotel rooms" of the Calvin and Hobbes era, and that he has "never regretted stopping when [he] did." Watterson also believes that, had he continued the strip, the fans who miss it would not feel the same -- in fact, those very fans would be cursing him for "[running] the wheels off it."
While brief, the interview is enlightening and certainly welcome. Watterson's work had an indelible and lasting impression on many of us and Calvin and Hobbes' end, along with that of Bloom County and some of the other strips of the time, signaled the true end of comic strips.
© C Harris Lynn, 2010
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